Current Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title
January 17	Sarah Brooks Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University	The Role of Aerosol Properties in Ice Cloud Nucleation
January 27 Special Seminar 3:00PM - 4:00PM O&M 1209	Jianping Huang College of Atmospheric Sciences Lanzhou University	The Effect of Dust Aerosol on Semi-arid Climate
January 31	Jon Thompson Department of Chemisty & Biochemistry Texas Tech University	Atmospheric Aerosols & Climate: Optical Properties, Chemical Composition & Open Challenges
February 7	Paul Markowski Meteorology Penn State University	How to Make a Tornado
February 8 Special Seminar 2:55PM - 5:30PM ANIN 215	Donald J. Wuebbles School of Earth, Society, and Environment University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Edwin Schneider George Mason University and the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmospheric Studies (COLA) Chris Landsea NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center	Severe Weather in a Changing Climate The Influence of Weather on Climate Hurricanes and Global Warming: Expectations versus Observations
February 14	Clare Palmer Philosophy Department Texas A&M University	Key Issues in Climate Ethics
February 21	Xiaohong Liu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics in CAM5: Evaluation and Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions
February 23 Special Seminar O&M 1209 3:00–4:00	Daren Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Atmopsheric Physics	Atmospheric profiling synthetic observation system
February 28	Jeff Trapp Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Purdue University	Connecting Tornado and Extreme Convective Weather Occurrence to Climate Variability and Change
March 6	Lea Hildebrandt Chemical Engineering University of Texas	Formation and Transformation of Atmospheric Particulate Matter: Measurements and Models
March 8 Special Seminar O&M 112 4:00-5:00PM	Brian Tang National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO	Global View of the Origin of Tropical Disturbances

NEW DATE & TIME March 9 Special Seminar O&M 1209 4:00-5:00PM	James Coakley College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University	The Response of Already Polluted Marine Stratum to Additional Particles

SPECIAL SEMINAR March 12 O&M 1209 10:00 a.m.	Andrew Dessler Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University	Expectations and goals of our next department head
March 20	Eric Petersen Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University	Soot-Formation Experiments Using a Shock Tube
March 22 Special Seminar O&M 112 4:00–5:00 P.M.	Shawn Milrad Department of Geography University of Kansas	Precipitation modulation by the Saint Lawrence River Valley in association with transitioning tropical cyclones
March 27	Yangang Liu Brookhaven National Laboratory Atmospheric Sciences Division	Fast Processes in Climate Models, Their Parameterization and Evaluation
SPECIAL SEMINAR March 28 O&M 1209 2:00 PM	Yangang Liu Brookhaven National Laboratory Atmospheric Sciences Division	Seeking Entropy-Related Principles for a Top-Down View of the Multiscale Climate Hierarchy Abstract
SPECIAL SEMINAR March 29th O&M 112 4:00 PM	Michael French School of Meteorology Oklahoma University	Mobile, Phased-Array, Doppler Radar Observations of Tornadoes at X-Band Abstract
April 03	Qi Ying Civil Engineering Texas A&M University	Regional source apportionment of air pollutino in Southeast Texas
SPECIAL SEMINAR April 5 O&M 112 4:00 PM	Daniel Stern Department of Meteorology Pennsylvania State University	Dynamics and Structure of Tropical Cyclones
April 10	Robert Korty Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University	Tropical cyclones and climate: Insight from paleoclimate simulations
April 17	John D. Kessler Department of OCeanography Texas A&M University	The Death of Hydrocarbon Plume
April 24	Ronald Cohen Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth and Planetary Science University of California, Berkeley	Observational Insights into Atmospheric Chemistry: NO x Trends and the Role of Organic Nitrates
May 01	Venkatachalam Ramaswamy Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Princeton University, Princeton, NJ	Greenhouse Gases versus Aerosols: Who did What to the 20th Century Climate?